Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Small (as in footprint) window manager

[Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

ratpoison is a good option for mythtv - no mouse but it maps keyboard to
window manager functions.  Ideal for using a remote as its easy to map
the keys.

BillK


On 3/12/18 4:54 am, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 12/2/18 11:14 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> MythTV's requirement to use a GUI setup program on a "headless"
>> server, always seemed like a massively stupid design decision.
>
> Yes, it was a dumb decision. However, I suppose it's better than
> having to edit that by hand... they could've uses a cli or curses
> interface or something.
>
>>
>> That said, it's been many years since I've run MythTV.  I switched to
>> SageTV because of the brilliantly small and silent set-top-boxes. But
>> Google bought SageTV and pulled the plug on that, so a year or two
>> back I switched to Plex (which you configure via a web UI).  The Plex
>> plugin for OSMC/Kodi has a clumsy UI, but works pretty well.  However,
>> the Plex app for Roku seems to be useless...
>>
>
> I've only ever run MythTV. Lately though I use Kodi with Kodi's Myth
> plugin on all TVs but my living room TV and computer.
>
> Usually when I'm doing work to this I'm physically in front of it.
> Fluxbox seems nice, going to try windowmaker and it's terminal but gcc
> barfed compiling Objective-C support. Trying it again... one of my PCs
> compiled the objc USE-flag fine, and the other didn't.
>
>
> Dan
>